More than 10,000 government officials were held liable by 11 provincial-level
and 18 major city governments in the first half of 2006 amid a national move
against lax administrative law enforcement, said a senior official of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing Thursday at a news
conference.
Gan Yisheng, secretary-general and spokesman of the Central Commission for
Discipline Inspection of the CPC, said the officials were all involved in
administrative law enforcement cases and failed to perform their due duties
accordingly.
In the half year, Gan said the commission enhanced and improved its
supervision over the operation of the administrative and other power, which has
significantly helped exercise its supervision function.
"China is now pushing forward its anti-corruption work in an in-depth way and
seeks to prevent corruption from the root," said Gan.
He said that reforms to this end are carried out in the personnel, judicial,
administrative, fiscal and tax, investment and finance sectors.
From early this year to the first half of 2007, the CPC, with its more than
70 million members, will reshuffle the posts of its more than 100,000 officials
at provincial, prefectural, county and township levels.
The news conference is viewed as another effort that the CPC takes to warn
the officials to behave themselves.
Gan said the CPC's inspection work, which is carried out by the commission
and the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee at the central
level, has also scored many achievements in helping supervise the operation of
the administrative power.
Statistics from the commission indicate that a total of 489 cities and 888
counties have also been drawn into the range of the inspection by CPC's
provincial-level disciplinary and organizational departments.
As a major anti-corruption measure, China is in the process of building an
effective system to ensure the government affairs are appropriately made public.
